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PACE President MevlÃ¼t Ã‡avuÅŸoÄŸlu: â€œPACEâ€™s main goal is to encourage dialogue between the parliamentarians of the two countries to assist the solution to Nagorno Karabakh conflictâ€

28 October 2010 14:45 (UTC +04:00)

Member of the Azerbaijani delegation to the Congress, chairman of the Sumgayit City Municipality and Azerbaijan City Municipality Association Abulfaz Babayev said PACE is working to assist the solution to the conflicts in some member countries, including Nagorno Karabakh conflict, and asked MevlÃ¼t Ã‡avuÅŸoÄŸlu what contribution can the Congress of Local and Regional Authorities of the Council of Europe to make to the solution of this problem. PACE President said the Assemblyâ€™s role is to encourage official negotiations, diplomats and to develop dialogue between the delegations of both countries to PACE. â€œOf course, such issues are not the main activity of our organization, but we can support the negotiations between the delegations of both countries and the process. PACE adopted a special resolution on Nagorno Karabakh conflict in 2005, which recommended to PACE Bureau to establish sub-committee on Nagorno Karabakh. The OSCE Minsk Group is working for the conflict solution and of course, we can not interfere in this issue. We aim to encourage the dialogue between the parliamentarians of the two countries. We focused attention on the humanitarian issues arisen from this conflict. We organized dialogue of the parliamentarians of Georgia and Russia to help the ordinary people suffered from the Georgian-Russian conflict. We will focus our attention on the solution of the problems of missing people, refugees and internally displaced persons. I consider that the Congress, as one of the main organizations of the Council of Europe, should do this workâ€.